Gimme my mortgage interest deduction! Gimme my employer-sponsored health insurance tax exemption! Gimme my child tax credit! Gimme my farm subsidy! Gimme my equipment depreciation deduction!
Gimme gimme gimme! And make that guy over there pay for it. Or borrow the money from China. I don't give a shit. Just gimme. Then we'll blame the people on food stamps for our problems.
Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large numbers.
What you just said, is exactly why our country was never supposed to be a democracy. Democracies, always consistently, consume and destroy themselves. The power of stupid people in large numbers, determining policy for a nation, will always ruin the nation. The Roman Republic was destroyed by Democracy. Give us bread and entertainment!
Now I do find it odd that you talk about tax deductions, exemptions and credits.
You do understand that no one has to "pay" for a deduction?
You show me on the Federal budget, where there is an expenditure for "tax deduction, credit, exemption", and show me how many billions were spent on that.
You can't of course. The expenditures are government programs. Solyndra, Green energy, military, entitlements, social security, medicare, medicaid, food stamps, housing assistance.
These are what we pay for. You can look on the Federal Budget and find line items for each of those, and millions more.
I'm completely in favor of everyone possible, paying as little in taxes as possible. If that guy over there get's a tax credit, tax deduction, tax exemption..... that to me is good! Less money stolen, and blown, on bad government programs, and political pay backs.
Of course the equal opposite position is, we need to cut government spending. Cut welfare. Cut subsidies. Cut programs. Cut food stamps. Cut housing assistance. Cut everything. You don't want to borrow money? Stop spending it.